Sam Harris is the author of five New York Times best sellers. His books include The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN
Award for Nonfiction. His books and lectures cover a diverse range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, human violence, rationality—but mostly concentrate on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is altering our sense of how we should live.

Sam’s books have been translated into more than 20 languages and have been mentioned in The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature, Rolling Stone, and many other publications. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, and The Annals of Neurology, among
others. He also hosts the Making Sense Podcast, which was chosen by Apple as one of the “iTunes Best” and has won a Webby Award for best podcast in the Science & Education category.

Sam received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA. He has also practiced meditation for more than 30 years and has studied with many Tibetan, Indian, Burmese, and Western meditation teachers, both in the United States and abroad. Sam has built the Waking Up App for anyone who whishes to learn to meditate in a modern, scientific context.

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Known as "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science.

He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor at the University of Arizona, and is the author of more than 100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media.

Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.

One of the most cited scholars alive, Chomsky has impacted a wide range of academic fields.

He is widely known as having helped to start the cognitive revolution in the human sciences, contributing to the development of a new cognitivistic framework for the study of language and the mind.

Besides his continued scholarship, he is still a leading critic of U.S. foreign policy, neoliberalism and contemporary state capitalism, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and mainstream news media. His ideas are very influential in the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements.

Professor Richard Wiseman has been described by a Scientific American columnist as ‘…one of the most interesting and innovative experimental psychologists in the world today.’ His books have sold over 3 million copies and he regularly appears on the media. Richard also gives essential speeches to organisations across the globe, including The Swiss Economic Forum, Google and Amazon.

He holds Britain’s only Professorship in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, is one of the most followed psychologists on Twitter, and the Independent On Sunday selected him as one of the top 100 people who make Britain a better place to live.
Richard is a Member of the Inner Magic Circle, and has created psychology-based YouTube videos that have attracted over 500 million views. He is also a creative consultant, including work with Derren Brown, The Twilight Zone and the hit television show, Brain Games.